Hey all, I've read through and searched about coatings, but havent seen any new information. Here is our situation:
Due to an uneven slab, we will likely need to repour a 47'x20' section of our slab where the brewhouse and fermentation/serving tanks will live. We've had both an ICO installer and a tile guy make some grimacing faces and remark on how expensive it would be if THEY created the slope with one of their products instead of using a concrete contractor. We intend to slope the floor to a center trench drain and then have the concrete contractor slope the floor for us giving us a new sloped concrete floor to then coat with something - thats the question. Tile installers have qouted $15-$17K and an application of ICO Guard 51 is in the neighborhood of $9K. Each of those prices assumes a clean already sloped floor for roughly 1000sq. ft. worth of installed product. Thought I should also mention that we are a 7bbl brewhouse with 4 matching fermenters and 5 serving jacketed brites (if that makes a difference). We only plan to keg off small amounts when needed, but otherwise don't plan to package much in this building ever as space (2900sq ft total) won't really allow it.
So, is there any, and if so, would any of you recommend a product that we 3 moderately handy guys could install that would work/make sense? Worst case we go with the ICO Gaurd 51 and spend the money to have them install, but as seems normal, our buildout costs are climbing and if we can save money by doing work ourselves, then we'd like to. However, if it means we'd have to re-do it in 2-3 years because we tried to cheap out, then I'll make the case for spending the money now.
Any input is always appreciated.
Due to an uneven slab, we will likely need to repour a 47'x20' section of our slab where the brewhouse and fermentation/serving tanks will live. We've had both an ICO installer and a tile guy make some grimacing faces and remark on how expensive it would be if THEY created the slope with one of their products instead of using a concrete contractor. We intend to slope the floor to a center trench drain and then have the concrete contractor slope the floor for us giving us a new sloped concrete floor to then coat with something - thats the question. Tile installers have qouted $15-$17K and an application of ICO Guard 51 is in the neighborhood of $9K. Each of those prices assumes a clean already sloped floor for roughly 1000sq. ft. worth of installed product. Thought I should also mention that we are a 7bbl brewhouse with 4 matching fermenters and 5 serving jacketed brites (if that makes a difference). We only plan to keg off small amounts when needed, but otherwise don't plan to package much in this building ever as space (2900sq ft total) won't really allow it.
So, is there any, and if so, would any of you recommend a product that we 3 moderately handy guys could install that would work/make sense? Worst case we go with the ICO Gaurd 51 and spend the money to have them install, but as seems normal, our buildout costs are climbing and if we can save money by doing work ourselves, then we'd like to. However, if it means we'd have to re-do it in 2-3 years because we tried to cheap out, then I'll make the case for spending the money now.
Any input is always appreciated.
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